“When Will the Tree Grow for Me to Benefit from It?”: Tree Tenure Reform to Counter Mining in Southwestern Ghana

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dc.contributor.authorTease, F.
dc.contributor.authorGaither, C.J.
dc.contributor.authorYembilah, R.
dc.contributor.authorTsiboe-Darko, A.
dc.contributor.authorMensah, P.
dc.contributor.authorAdams, B.
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-15T16:23:08Z
dc.date.available2023-02-15T16:23:08Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.descriptionResearch Articleen_US
dc.description.abstractIn 2021, Ghana was Africa’s largest gold producer and sixth largest producer worldwide. However, mining wrecks tremendous environmental havoc and poses significant human health risks. Efforts to mitigate these impacts have focused exclusively on regularizing mining, with little recognition of the crucial role farmers play in mining, particularly as agents that lease their land for the same. Ghana’s new tree tenure policy allows cocoa farmers to acquire individualized, allodial rights to commercial timber species on their farms, which permits famers to capture forestry sector payments. We examine farmers’ impressions of tree tenure reform as a potential counter to mining in eleven communities in Western and Western North regions, using focus group and individual interviews. While the concept of tree tenure is enthusiastically embraced, practical difficulties encountered by smallholders attempting to navigate the bureaucratic registration system limit the sway of tree registration and ownership as a means of limiting mining proliferation.en_US
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2022.2161028
dc.identifier.urihttp://ugspace.ug.edu.gh:8080/handle/123456789/38668
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSociety & Natural Resourcesen_US
dc.title“When Will the Tree Grow for Me to Benefit from It?”: Tree Tenure Reform to Counter Mining in Southwestern Ghanaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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